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Deerhoof, Of Montreal, Cut Copy Remix Maroon 5
Deerhoof photo by Francis Chung "I've always found it really interesting that a group of people looking at the same painting can all see different things," art enthusiast/ Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Billboard.com . Whatever you may take from Mr. Levine kinda sorta equating "Makes Me Wonder" with "Guernica", you can almost see his point when you run down the list of ...
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Festival celebrating tradition of theatre begins in Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 31: The moving tale of the struggles of Binodini, a 19th century actress in Kolkata, came alive on a Bangalore stage Friday marking the beginning of a 10-day theatre festival celebrating the glorious tradition of 'Nataka Mandali' or company theatre in India.
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Happy Horror'ween! Enter our fancy dress contest.
DiS really rather loves The Horrors and they just happen to also be the perfect band for Hallowe'en. So we've got hold of some copies of the US version of their album and some American EPs and othersuch stuffs to give away. All you need to do is show us what you are/were wearing this Horror'ween...
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Next year's Venice Biennale to break with tradition
ROME (AFP) - Next year's prestigious Venice Biennale art show will focus on the creative process, breaking with longstanding museum-style exhibitions, organisers said Friday.
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Interview: Michael Fassbender
He has already been feted at the San Sebastián and Toronto film festivals, and received a stunned standing ovation at Cannes - but for Michael Fassbender, Belfast was the one. You don't play Bobby Sands in a film about the hunger strikes without feeling decidedly uneasy about how it will be received in a town still decorated with murals of its most bitterly divisive son. It's the morning ...
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Weekend Music Preview: Halloween Special!
Images from MySpace / provided by entity. We recently enjoyed another ACL Fest and this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest is a few days away but there is another music festival in Tejas this weekend -- the 2008 SPI Music Fest kicks off in South Padre today, with performances by the likes of Willie Nelson , Ghostland Observatory , Blue Öyster Cult , Alejandro Escovedo and ...
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Wildlife Weekend returns to Olde Lafayette Village in Sussex County
Carol Decker, a nationally renowned Sussex County wildlife artist, naturalist, conservationist, educator, and award winner will exhibit an extensive collection of her work at "Wildlife Weekend XIII" from Nov. 8-11 at Olde Lafayette Village in the Village Meeting Hall, Routes...
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Meet Some Arty Folk
Twenty-Two Gallery has a new Artists' Meet & Greet thing going and they will have Megan Greenholt and Smita Rao on hand this Sunday to answer questions and explain their unique artistic processes on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Noon to 4pm. Light refreshments will be served and the event is free and open to the public. Twenty-two Gallery is located at 236 S. 22nd St. (on 22nd between Locust & ...
Phillyist |
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‘Guys and Dolls’ opens tonight
More than 75 “zines” will enliven ARTS Space Obispo from Nov. 7 to 25 in an exhibition titled the “Super Duper Zine Show.”
Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder |
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Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Remember the Association of Art Museum Directors' objectless Objects Registry , created last June to disclose (to the public and potential claimants) new acquisitions by member institutions of "archaeological material and ancient art lacking complete provenance after November 1970"?
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Abilene High returns to 'normal' after security concerns
A pep rally was held. Students moved freely from class to class. Lunch was served. Representatives of class-ring provider Jostens and the panoramic school photography Goldbeck Company were speaking with students. There was no lockdown this morning, despite continued rumors circulating that there was one. A day after nearly 30 percent of Abilene High School’s 2,161 students were reported ...
Abilene Reporter-News |
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Sienna Miller sues paparazzi for harassment
Hollywood actor launches legal proceedings against Big Pictures photography agency and founder Darryn Lyons
Guardian Unlimited |
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Vinyl Killers 6: Because you can’t paint on an MP3
In the 2008 edition of De Capo Press’s yearly Best Music Writing collection, guest editor Nelson George describes how at 4-years-old, standing on his tiptoes and peering into his mother’s record player, he began a lifelong search to discover “God in the vinyl.” At the latest exhibition put together by Portland-based painted-album enthusiasts Vinyl Killers, [...]
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Steamboat Museum presents Paul Plaschke art exhibit in Jeffersonville
Though born in Germany, Plaschke worked mainly in Louisville and Chicago as a political cartoonist and impressionist landscape artist. The exhibit of 29 works includes oils and pastels on loan ...
The Evening News and the Tribune |
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Exhibitionist: What to see this week
With darkness and wet weather now cloaking more and more of your day, it's the perfect time to duck into an art gallery. Let writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris be your guide, with her new weekly column that picks the best exhibitions around the country
Guardian Unlimited |
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Brinsley Tyrrell enamels at William Busta Gallery show deep feeling for Ohio landscapes
Brinsley TyrrellA large enamel on steel painting by Brinsley Tyrrell evokes the splendor of an Ohio winter. REVIEW William Busta Gallery What: "Brinsley Tyrrell: Ohio Lands Forever.'' When: Through Saturday, Nov. 15. Where: 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland. Admission: Free. Call...
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Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Shadows
Shadows by laanba Light and shadows play well together on this shot of this performer. ________________________________________________________________ If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining a whole bunch of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group . Each day, Houstonist chooses a Photo of the Day and if Houstonist uses ...
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Next year's Venice Biennale to break with tradition
Next year's prestigious Venice Biennale art show will focus on the creative process, breaking with longstanding museum-style exhibitions, organisers said Friday.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Next year's Venice Biennale to break with tradition
Next year's prestigious Venice Biennale art show will focus on the creative process, breaking with longstanding museum-style exhibitions, organisers said Friday.
AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Seeing Double
Someday, chips might be made with X-rays. Until then, double-patterning lithography will be the only game in town
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Johnson City has a film festival too
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The third annual Southern Appalachian International Film Festival in Johnson City and Knoxville, Tenn., will run Nov. 13-16 and Nov. 21-23 respectively.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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How would you fill the Chicago Spire hole?
Comments: Blair Kamin: With major construction halted on the project, pundits have started making sport of the giant hole from which the 2,000-foot-tall tower is (or was) supposed to rise. Your ideas: Children's Museum, storage, a pool
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News of the Weird: White wine, not water, flows from taps in Italy
News that sounds like a joke A plumbing error in October at the annual Grape Festival in Marino, Italy, stymied the traditional hook-up in which white wine cascades through the famous fountains in the center of town. Instead, water continued to run in the fountains, but "10 to 12" nearby homeowners must have thought it glorious divine intervention, briefly, when they opened their taps and found ...
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier |
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A chance to paint the town any colour
ELMS, a historic clocktower and maybe a run-down service station -- Camperdown's landmarks are set to be captured by south-west artists today. Painters, sculptors and textilers will converge on Fin...
The Standard |
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Tinking Is Digital Messaging Wind Chime For The Digital Age [Concept]
Combining the delightful play of wind with a tinkly mobile sculpture and wireless messaging datalinks for the 21st century: that's the mission of designers Lufdesign with Tinkling. Whenever you get...
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